If a 900W Nvidia GeForce card appears in the next generation the GPU industry has lost its head
«Everything is possible.» That's probably the key takeaway from the latest Nvidia GPU leak pointing to a single 900W GPU SKU for its upcoming Ada Lovelace graphics cards. It's reportedly a full-fat AD102 next-gen chip slapped onto a PCB with twin 16-pin PCIe power connectors and, what is known in the business as, a metric f***ton of memory attached to it.
In fact, there is another full-fat AD102 SKU with 900W TGP, 48G 24Gbps GDDR6X, 2*16pin and higher frequency. But no one knows whether it will become an actual product. Because the test board of AD102 has more than two 16pin connectors, so everything is possible.April 27, 2022
If this turns out to be an actual consumer RTX 4090 Ti, or the like, then I think we can quite honestly say the GPU industry has lost its head. I struggle to justify the power my gaming PC chews through in the face of what I'm doing to the planet, and that's with a card that's almost a third of the TGP of this potential beast.
It was brought to light by noted twitter leaker, @kopite7kimi, who has been spitting out RTX 40-series rumours/leaks/whatever you want to call them, on an increasing cadence as the next-gen GPUs start to move into the testing phase.
Despite the suggestion that this monstrous graphics card is on the way, it is noted that no-one they've spoken to knows whether this is actually going to translate into an actual released product. They also note that the original AD102 testing board comes with more than two 16-pin PCIe power connectors, so Nvidia could legitimately test a board that sucks down even more power.
Surely, there's no 1800W TGP option being floated, eh Jen-Hsun?
But why would Nvidia be playing with such a thirsty card design in the first place? The rumours already
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